Doctors at a United Kingdom hospital have broken surgical boundaries by reconstructing the face of a motorcycle-crash survivor using 3D-printing technology. Stephen Power, 29, suffered severe injuries while returning home with friends in Wales nearly...

For the first time, researchers have implanted an electrode that can record neural activity while it simultaneously delivers electric current to the brain. Minneapolis-based medical device company Medtronic developed the device, which can also adjust...

Chinese researchers used cells generated from urine to build structures that resemble human teeth. Eventually, they hope that human stem cells could provide the basis for a tooth bud that could be transplanted into the jaw of the patient. For the cur...

A new smart knife developed in London can help surgeons find cancerous tissue real-time during surgery, at a faster rate than traditional lab tests. This intelligent knife -- known as the "iKnife" -- accurately detects whether tissue a surgeon is cut...

Do you know your blood type? A Portuguese student has designed a device that can quickly determine blood type -- four times faster than current solutions. In emergency situations, diagnosing a patient's blood type is vital when a blood transfusion is...

Putting a robot in your eye could be the next innovation in medical technology. Researchers in Zurich are building nearly microscopic bots to help with delicate surgeries. The bot has a retractable needle for probing and a body that is only a quarter...

An Italian surgeon is reportedly convinced that the technology now exists to carry out a full-on human head transplant. The science -- according to Dr. Sergio Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group -- is based on the successfu...

An Iowa businessman says 3D-printed human organs can help doctors practice surgeries before actually opening up a real body. Mark Ginsberg -- an Iowa City jewelry store owner, who also has a manufacturing facility with a couple of 3D-printers -- has ...

The history books are quickly filling up with Google Glass firsts -- everything from skydives, showers and, now, surgeries. You read that right -- Dr. Rafael Grossman, also a TEDx speaker and Google Glass Explorer, has used the wearable device to liv...

A new photo-sharing network is changing the way healthcare professionals interact and learn from one another. It's not for those with weak stomachs. Figure 1, an app created in Canada, is essentially a medical version of Instagram; it allows doctors ...

Thanks to 3D-printing technology, Eric Moger is getting his life back. Four years ago, doctors detected a massive tumor growing beneath the skin on his face. They successfully removed the cancerous growth, but were also forced to remove most of the e...

UPDATE: You can view pictures of the surgery -- pre, during and post-op here: http://storify.com/swedish/live-tweeted-and-instagrammed-cochlear-implant-hea Eleanor Day, 79, doesn't have a Twitter account, but after her live-tweeted cochlear implant s...

New wearable electronics could become smart surgical gloves that allow surgeons to feel and do everything using their fingertips. Such electronics could even include electronic "socks" wrapped snugly around a patient's heart to monitor cardiac health...

Doctors say Facebook and video-chatting tools like Skype and FaceTime have partly fueled this decade's boom in plastic surgery. "People will come in and say, 'I saw myself in the mirror, but I didn't really notice it until I saw myself on Facebook or...

For cardiac patients, repair of defects often requires open-heart surgery and temporary paralysis of the organ. But a set of robotic tools developed by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital could eventually enable surgeons to operate on the heart...

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